FS Weekend Lelystad 2009

Maybe a bit early, but better safe than sorry. Put it in your agenda already; November 7 and 8 at Lelystad Airport, the Aviodrome National Aviation Museum, The Netherlands. One of the world’s largest, if not THE largest, Flightsim Events will be opening its doors again. We’ll keep you posted [...]

Is Microsoft building a new FS Dev Team?

Following up on a lead from one commenter on another story we checked Microsoft US Careers Website, that is the place where MS puts up job offers, and found two very recent offerings related to ‘Flying Games’. Does this mean that MS will continue development of the Flight Simulator after the recent slash of ACES-Studio?

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My thoughts on Microsoft sacking the ACES team & the future of FSX!

Hi guys,

Well after the disappointing news of the sacking I have had time to ponder and think about what will happen now. Firstly I can not see Microsoft leasing out their code to other companies Microsoft have a history of guarding everything and normally are very guarded towards other companies seeing any of their [...]

Carenado’s Cessna Skyhawk For FS2004

Carenado has made a special FS2004 version of their wonderful Cessna Skyhawk II for FSX. It comes with all the ‘normal’ features such as moving parts, nice textures and such, but also includes full checklists and other documentation. In addition the flight model is based upon official data and own experience of the [...]

Puerto Rico From Raimondo Taburet

Raimondo Taburet has released yet another of his photosceneries. This time it is a “……. a photorealistic scenery for day and night (Summer only) covering the entire State of Puerto Rico. The scenery resolution is 1.2 m per pixel  to ensure that all users benefit from the highest frames rates as possible in [...]

MallorcaX Coming

Thorsten Loth of Sim-Wings is rebuilding his Mallorca scenery, now called MallorcaX. It is the first part of a series including the Baleares, Ibiza and Menorca, all famous European holiday islands attracting plane loads of tourists every year. The titles will include phototextures and autogen, and of course airfields. Some screenshots can be [...]

P-47 Thunderbolt From A2A Simulations

A2A Simulations presents you the P-47 Thunderbolt. “….. Affectionately known as “The Jug,” the P-47 Thunderbolt is as big as the American Spirit and holds a unique honor in the ranks of World War II fighters. Ironically the original concept was born in Russia and can be seen by its rugged and [...]

GeForce GTX295 Reviewed On Guru3D

Hilbert Hagedoorn writes “….. The ASUS GeForce GTX 295 tested. NVIDIA recently unleashed the GeForce GTX 295. Many manufacturers and AIBs therefore are now selling the product and even in this financial difficult time, these babies sell like cute little puppies in a pet store. One of the biggest names in the tech [...]

Fantasy Mig-21 For X-Plane

Jason Chandler designed this ‘cartoonish’ aircraft for X-plane and writes “…… This aircraft began its life as a pencil on notepad sketch, of “what would a MIG-21 look like as a single place GA grand touring, sport and race plane. Included here is the scan of the sketch for you to enjoy a [...]

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